Visiting Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Harvard

Biography

Professor Wolfman joined the faculty in 2009 after spending nearly 20 years at the national public interest law firm Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving the last five years as the Litigation Group’s Director. Before that, for five years, he conducted trial and appellate litigation as a staff lawyer at a rural poverty law program in Arkansas. Professor Wolfman has handled a broad range of litigation, including cases involving health and safety regulation, class action governance, court access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, public benefits law, and government transparency. He has argued five cases before the Supreme Court (winning four) and dozens of other cases before federal and state appellate courts and trial courts around the country. He directed Public Citizen’s Supreme Court Assistance Project, which helps “underdog” public interest clients litigate before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has testified before Congress and federal rules committees, and he is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, he regularly taught a course on appellate courts at Harvard Law School and previously taught at Georgetown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and American.